31977R1189

4 . 6 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 138/23

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1189/77 of 3 June 1977 fixing the special levies applicable to New Zealand butter and cheese imported into the United Kingdom under Protocol 18

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN possible be kept at a uniform level to ensure the COMMUNITIES, stability of the market ; whereas these levies may nevertheless be altered, and are in particular to be Having regard to the Treaty of Accession ('), adjusted where this is necessary' to permit steady sales Having regard to Protocol 1 8 (2) to the Act annexed of the annual quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of thereto, the Protocol ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, in order not to endanger the sale of Commu­ 226/73 of 31 January 1973 laying down general rules nity butter and cheese, the special levies must not be for imports of New Zealand butter and cheese into lower than the level necessary to permit the annual the United Kingdom (3), as last amended by Regula­ quantities specified in Article 1 (2) of the Protocol to tion (EEC) No 3067/75 (4), and in particular Article 8 be sold ; thereof, Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the Whereas pursuant to Article 2 ( 1 ) of the Protocol situation on the British market that the special levies special levies are applied to New Zealand butter and should be fixed at the levels indicated below ; cheese imported into the United Kingdom under that Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Protocol ; are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of the Protocol and ment Committee for Milk and Milk Products, to Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73 , these special levies are fixed on the basis of the difference HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : between : — the market price at which the annual quantities Article 1 specified in Article 1 (2) of the Protocol can actu­ ally be sold, and The special levies referred to in Article 2 of Protocol — the cif price fixed in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) 1 8 are hereby fixed at : No 226/73 , plus costs incurred between the cif — 73 units of account per 100 kilograms for butter, and first sale stages ; — 100 units of account per 100 kilograms for cheese . Whereas Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 226/73 provides that the special levies should be fixed at a Article 2 level such that the butter and cheese in question can be sold at a consistent rate and should as far as This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 June 1977.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 3 June 1977 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 173 . (3 ) OJ No L 27, 1 . 2 . 1973 , p . 17 . (4 OJ No L 307, 27 . 11 . 1 975, p . 4 .